WILL OF SAMUEL MARING, LIVINGSTON, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 1999 by Bonnie Bunce (bbunce@idcomm.com). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ Will of Samuel MARING, Livingston Co., New York. 22 July 1882 The following is a transcribed copy of the probate record and last will and testament of Samuel Maring of Conesus, Livingston Co., NY, whose first wife, Orpha (Bunce) Maring and mother of all his children, was a sister of my g.grandfather Peter Bunce, Jr. of Barrington, Yates Co., NY, later of Tescumseh, Shawnee Co., Kansas. I got a copy of this will from SAMPUBCO, copied from a microfilmed record. Submitted by Bonnie Bunce on October 11, 1998 1:19 PM ************************************************************************ Transcribed copy of the will of Samuel MARING from Surrogate's Court of Livingston Co., New York (handwritten portions are in italics): LIVINGSTON COUNTY SURROGATE'S COURT LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Samuel MARING, deceased. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BE IT REMEMBERED, That heretofore, to wit: on the 3rd day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine Amos D. Coe and Lucy Ann MARING Executors named in the Last Will and Testament of Samuel MARING late of the town of Conesus, in the county of Livingston, deceased, appeared in open court, before the Surrogate of the County of Livingston, and made application to have the said Last Will and Testament, which relates to both Real and Personal Estate, proved; and on such application the said Surrogate did ascertain by satisfactory evidence who were the heirs at law and next of kin of said testator, and their respective residences, and said Surrogate did thereupon issue a Citation in due form of law, directed to the said heirs at law and next of kin, by their respective names, stating their respective names of residence, requiring them to appear before said Surrogate, at his office in the Village of Geneseo, in said County on the 16th day of December, A.D., 1889, to attend the Probate of said Will. And afterwards, to wit: on the 16th day of December, A.D. 1889, satisfactory evidence by affidavit was produced and presented to said Surrogate, of the Due service of said Citation in the mode prescribed by law, and on that day, no one appearing to oppose the Probate of such Will, such proceedings were thereupon had in said Court afterwards, that the said Surrogate took the proofs of said Will hereinafter set forth upon this 16th day of December, 1889, A.D., and he thereupon adjudged the said Will to be a valid Will of Real and Personal Estate, and the proofs thereof to be sufficient, which said Last Will and Testament and proofs are as follows, that is to say: In the name of God Amen. I, Samuel MARING, of the town of Conesus County of Livingston & State of New York, being of sound mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory life, do therefore make, ordain, publish and disclose this to be my last Will and Testament, that is to say: 1st First, After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my wife Lucy Ann fifteen hundred dollars & all the household furniture of every description. 2nd I make the ballance or remainder of my property to be divided into four equal parts as follows: To my son George I give one fourth of what remains after paying my wife as above stated. To my son William one fourth the same as George. To my son Andrew J. one fourth the same as George & William each. To my son Branard B. & nephew Frank F. I give the remaining fourth to be divided equally between them. 3rd I hereby authorize my executor & executrix to hand over, to sell & convey any & all real estate lands & tenements I may hold at the time of my decease. Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint Amos D. Coe & my wife Lucy Ann to be executor & executrix of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 22nd day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. This above written instrument was subscribed by the said Samuel MARING in our presence and acknowledged by him to each of us, and he at the same time declared the above instrument, so subscribed, to be his last Will and Testament, and we, at his request, have signed our names as witnesses hereto, and written opposite our names our places of residence. Samuel MARING [L.S.] Wm. F. Gray, Conesus, Liv. Co., N.Y. Mary J. Coe, Conesus, Liv. Co., N.Y. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Bonnie Bunce email: bbunce@idcomm.com web site at: www.idcomm.com/personal/bbunce